Ball receiver



June 23,. 1931. F. LANZA 1,811,238

BALL RECEIVER Filed March 31, 1928 n "W il 111" W! WITNESSES INVENTOR flWL/ X z a, w (ya/Z gg Patented June 23, 1931 UNITED STATES FRANK LANZA, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA BALL RECEIVER Application filed. March 31, 1928. Serial No. 266,345.

This invention relates to ball receivers or receiving means and is particularly adapted to be used with the type of ball conveyer or chute described and claimed in patents No.

$1,630,345, and No. 1,626,242. The object of this invention is to provide a ball receiving means that may be removably secured to a billiard table, and having a multiplicity of receiving sockets specifically adapted to engage the rods of each separate chute or conveyer and secure same in operative position.

A further object is to provide a receiv ing means for such conveyers or chutes that may, by reason of its simplicity, be quickly and easily assembled for use and dismantled for repairs.

The improvement claimed is hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of a billiard table frame showing a conveyer or chute and ball receiver;

Fig. 2, a side elevation of a billiard table showing the ball receiver in section taken on line a a in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, a perspective view of the ball receiver.

In the practice of the invention, referring descriptively to the specific embodiment thereof herein exemplified, a ball receptacle 1, designed to conform with any style of billiard table, is provided at its rear end- 2 with a closure 3, preferably of stamped sheet metal or other suitable material having sufficient strength to resist the strain to which such receiving means are subject to, the said closure having a plurality of openings to receive the ends of ball return chutes of the type described and claimed in patents No. 1,630,345 and No. 1,626,242. The wall of each opening has a plurality of recesses 4 adapted to receive the individual ductile wires from which the chutes are formed.

All of the chute end receiving openings of the receptacle communicate transversely. The purpose of this arrangement is to provide a lateral clearance to facilitate positioning of the ends of the wires without undue bending. The chutes of this type are formed of ductile wires and without this clearance they would have to be bent unduly to properly position. With this clearance the grouped end portions of the wires may be swung laterally ata wide angle and easily returned to position in the proper opening where the wires may be seated in the recesses without any acute bends being made therein to destroy their smoothness.

The closure being constructed of stamped sheet metal or other material of suitable strength has the advantage not only of being specifically adapted to ductilewire conveyers or chutes, but in addition provides a rigid and secure foundation to which the receiving means may be permanently attached, and which maywith slight modifications be adapted to be used with conveyers or chutes now wellknown in the art.

l/Vhat is claimed as the invention and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

The combination with a pool table having ball return chutes formed of multiple spaced ductile wires, of a ball receiver having in one wall a plurality of openings to receive the ends of said chutes, the wall of each opening having spaced recesses to receive the individual ductile wires, and all of said openings communicating transversely whereby lateral clearance is provided, to facilitate placing of the wires withoutundue bending.

FRANK LANZA. 

